2. Tank
2.1 Tank design and manufacture
2.1.1 Description and manufacture
The reactor vessel is the component that contains the reactor core (the fuel assemblies). It forms part of the main primary circuit, the second containment barrier for radioactive materials. Maintaining its integrity is therefore an essential objective, all the more so as the possibility of its rupture is not taken into account at the design stage, and its replacement is hardly conceivable.
This is a kind of cylindrical tank,...
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Law no. 2006-686 of June 13, 2006 on nuclear transparency and safety.
Arrêté du 26 février 1974 relatif à la construction du circuit primaire principal des chaudières nucléaires à eau (JORF du 12 mars 1974).
Arrêté du 10 novembre 1999 relatif à la surveillance de l'exploitation du circuit primaire principal et des circuits secondaires principaux des réacteurs...
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